Oh my goodness it is May already

May today and what a day. Today I won a book and I was nominated for a blog award. Today I submitted a picture book manuscript to Rate Your Story.

Today I looked back over April adn realised I won a mug, a tee shirt, a key ring, a notepad(paper variety), two picuter books and a piece of art. I wrote around 30,000 words and submitted stories to anthologies. I blog hopped to over 260 blogs during teh A to Z challenge. I created over a dozen pieces of art. I revised. I entered competitions including one I submitted to the Georgia Romance Writers 'Maggie' awards for unpublished romance writer. I started a diet which i have stuck to for nine days now and that is a record for me. I studied poetry and rhyme in RhyPiBoMo and I wrote three picture book drafts for 12 x 12. I wrote flash fictions for midweekbluesbuster and 38 week challenge. I had my roughs(art) approved by the writer who commissioned them. I reviewed picture books and reviewed Australian women's writers and gained more followers who like what I have to say. I hosted a session in a book release online. I edited and critiqued for other writers and supported writers and artists. I also made it to the finish line for blog my book in 30 and my second campNaNoWriMo. I also completed the Video Idiot Book Camp though I have yet to complete my welcome video.Oh and I submitted art to Susanna hill's first ever illustrator competition.

What an incredible month April was.

May is shaping up to be just as busy. I signed up for a story a day on storyaday.org and I intend completing the novel I began in April and one I have almost completed from NaNoWriMo last November. I will complete the art for two writers and i will write at least one picture book draft for May 12 x 12. I bought Twitter for Dummies so I am going to expend some effort to master that social media.

On May 12th I will do a review of the A to Z challenge and tomorrow I suspect I will do my bit in the blog award by supporting other blogs with less than 300 followers.

So May, the last month of Autumn here in the antipodes and the last of Spring up north, a month full of birthdays and potential. Happy May everyone. HUGS

Before it becomes too late

I am going to write my blog today at least several hours before bed time. Here I am and it is only 7.50pm.
Today's water colour first. It is a deformed horse with a tooth growing from its forehead, poor thing.

and tomorrow I am going to tackle some lady bugs.
If you have FB and haven't taken a look at the work being uploaded to the 52 week challenge I urge you to give yourself a visual treat and take a look.

I went to the library yesterday and borrowed an armload of picture books because tomorrow is the beginning of the 14:14 blog challenge wherein I will be doing reviews on picture books and uploading on each day for two weeks. This is in addition to the picture book marathon and the mini WOW over the weekend. I am trying to upload my daily word count to Carpe Verba but I am not making the 500 words per day and then I will suddenly have 3000. I do want to become more daily about it but at the moment I am doing so much more learning than writing. The reviews will give me a good over view of what is and isn't being published. None of the books is to be more than 10 years old and most of those I collected are less than five years old.  I will also be doing a mini revimo on the 15th and 16th and trying to revamp my Echidna which did not rate spectacularly well. I now have a critique group and have exchanged stories with one lady already. Hers is simply delightful and I hope she has it published sooner rather than later.

I also joined write 1 sub 1 and the sub 6 club but I need to be logging in and letting them know what I am doing. I am off to blog hop.